<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post"># Adam Morrison is surprisingly touchy about how you pronounce his school's name. "It's Gon-ZAY-ga, not Gon-ZAH-ga!'' he told fans at the Bobcats' scrimmage Monday night. # I feel bad for Alan Anderson, who has never been healthy this preseason, and needed the playing time he's missed. With all the alternatives on the wings this season, he could get lost on this roster. # If Sean May shoots as well in the regular season as he has so far, he could make a run at the Sixth Man award. # Most interesting decision for Bernie Bickerstaff is whether to start Brevin Knight or Morrison. However, Morrison will play starter's minutes either way, because Knight will play the point when Felton sits.</div> Source
Maybe he should be just a bit more adamant about hitting his shots than correcting the way people pronounce his old team's name. And I say team because he never even graduated from the school, so we can't really say alma mater. 32% isn't exactly the kind of shooting you need to shake off rust.
<div class="quote_poster">Squishface Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Maybe he should be just a bit more adamant about hitting his shots than correcting the way people pronounce his old team's name. And I say team because he never even graduated from the school, so we can't really say alma mater. 32% isn't exactly the kind of shooting you need to shake off rust.</div> You're being too harsh. Do you expect him to shoot around while he's talking to fans? Since this occured during scrimmage, I'm assuming it was during a break where players rest.
<div class="quote_poster">P.A.P. Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">You're being too harsh. Do you expect him to shoot around while he's talking to fans? Since this occured during scrimmage, I'm assuming it was during a break where players rest.</div> I wasn't being literal, I was merely saying he could perhaps discuss something a little more central to his existence in the NBA than how to pronounce his old team's name. And shooting happens to be one of those important things. I would say defense too, or maybe rebounding, but he can't do either of those things, so I guess he'd be wise to leave 'em out.
<div class="quote_poster">Squishface Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I wasn't being literal, I was merely saying he could perhaps discuss something a little more central to his existence in the NBA than how to pronounce his old team's name. And shooting happens to be one of those important things. I would say defense too, or maybe rebounding, but he can't do either of those things, so I guess he'd be wise to leave 'em out.</div> He's a rookie. He has flaws. No one is calling him the next Michael, not even the next Rick Fox. It's an interview - every player does them. Besides, that always bugged the hell out of me as well. Even guys like Dick Vitale call it Gon-ZAH-ga. I've even been corrected by a Gon-ZAH-ga fan when I pronounced it Gon-ZAY-ga, so not even their own fans know how to pronounce the name. Yes, he didn't graduate, but he would have had there not been millions of guaranteed dollars dangling in front of his face. It isn't as if he wasn't loyal to the university. I'd think that if I spent three years of my life working as hard as he did and with as much passion and intensity as he did for a school like Gonzaga, I'd be offended when people don't even know how to say the school's name.
